Indigenous Peoples Movies

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the...

A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built...

Three teachers run together an elementary school for local Hmong children in a remote mountain village. One day, an incident turns their life upside...

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the...

A young indigenous man contracts tuberculosis and is sent to the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital in Edmonton. He struggles with the aftereffects of...

Winner of the 2014 Visions du Réel Grand Prix. In the town of San Miguel Tzinacapan, in Puebla’s Nahua Mountain Range, a family lost its...

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa...

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...

A young slave whishes returning to his homeland, the Canary Islands, after twenty years of captivity in Spain. For that reason he will travel as...

XIX century. A big misfortune happened on the land of one wealthy family in Yakutia. As time passed, fear was forgotten and farmers started settling...

An NFB crew filmed a group of three families, Cree hunters from Mistassini. Since times predating agriculture, this First Nations people have gone to...

In this short documentary, Canadian poet Andrew Suknaski introduces us to Wood Mountain, the south central Saskatchewan village he calls home. In...

Between 1907 and 1909, Robert Lohmeyer (1879-1959), a German pioneer of color photography, traveled through the German colonies in Africa and...

Nose and Tina are a couple in love. The film captures the domestic details of their life together and documents their hassles with work, money and...

An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy...

Plant Explorer Richard Evans Schultes was a real life Indiana Jones whose discoveries of hallucinogenic plants laid the foundation for the...

In this tense and immersive tour de force, audiences are taken directly into the line of fire between powerful, opposing Peruvian leaders who will...

A documentary portrait of life in the Cook Islands, focusing on Rarotonga and neighboring islands. The film records traditional fishing, weaving,...

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time...